Got an email from him today (signed Jason) and stating he is in Texas. Sounds like another scammer....

If anybody verifies him to be a scammer, can they email me so I can list him on http://coinopsellerratings.com?

I want to try to make searching very, very easy for buyers and sellers. The site is brand new, and it's already ranking #1 on Google for "pinball seller ratings."

If we can flesh it out more and more over time, it could be a valuable resource.

Basically each time I put a search add on Mr Pinball I am contacted by several scammers.

I confirm Tom Weitzel is 100% a scammer.

Cool, thanks. I'll list him on the site as a known scammer.

How do you know if they are a scammers and what's there scam?

oh boy, get ready. basically they will try to buy your machine, they will tell you their going to send a check for 5000 even though your selling your pin for 2000 they will tell you to use the money to arrange shipping and then whatever is left over you can send them back in the form of a wire or bank check, the whole time the check they send is no good, but by the time you find out you have already shipped your pin and paid them money. it sounds like it would be hard to fool someone into this trap, but they bank on your greed,or stupidity, or your desperation or need for money , or all of the above. it must work because for the last ten years of collecting they have not gone away, someone is falling for it.

Man that is ridiculous, i know people fall for this crap.......but how? I suppose your right heaps of people fall for it and it happens all over the world.......I was expecting some crazed up idea, but its probably the simple minded scams that work.......haha, cheers for the reply.

Or they offer you a machine shipped to your door for a really good price. Anyway with just common sense you can feel the trap.

The reason people fall for it is that these guys come up with very legitimate-looking cashiers checks / money orders. People think it's drawn on a bank so they accept it. I can't imagine not waiting for a check to clear before shipping off a 5K piece of equipment, but apparently it happens all the time. It can't get reported that often because these guys never seem to get caught / go away.

I just got an email form good ol' Tom Weitzel. He was offering to sell me a machine, I was hopeful because his pricing was good but not unreasonable. When I asked for his phone number his second reply had this tagline...

"Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Nigeria."

Damn! Just figured I'd bump this post. I'm sure I'm not the only one who got the email.

You should mess with him and waste his time.

Wasting scammers time.... these guys made an art out of it. http://www.419eater.com/

I called him out already.